Bill Text: IL SB0497 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Wildlife Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning hunting by disabled veterans.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2019-01-09 - Session Sine Die [SB0497 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-SB0497-Introduced.html
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1 | AN ACT concerning wildlife.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | |||||||||||||||||||
3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Wildlife Code is amended by changing Section | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | 3.1-2 as follows:
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6 | (520 ILCS 5/3.1-2) (from Ch. 61, par. 3.1-2)
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7 | Sec. 3.1-2.
Veterans who, according to the
the | |||||||||||||||||||
8 | determination of the Veterans'
Administration as certified by | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | the Department of Veterans' Affairs, are
at least 10% disabled | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | with service-related disabilities or in receipt of
total | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | disability pensions may hunt any of the species protected by | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | Section
2.2, during such times, with such devices and by such | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | methods as are permitted
by this Act, without procuring hunting | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | licenses, on the condition that their
respective disabilities | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | do not prevent them from hunting in a manner which
is safe to | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | themselves and others. | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | (Source: P.A. 83-58.)
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